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Thursday, July 17, 2014

Food Bloggers with French flavour!

I feel like I should apologise because this post is totally
virtual – I haven’t prepared any French food to rave about, I haven’t been to
any French restaurants recently to share photo’s or reviews with you, I haven’t
interviewed anyone interesting, or been to any French food workshops... this
post is all about French food blogs that I have been following or recently
discovered. I am preparing this post totally virtually, on my regular (2x week) 3 hour commute from
the office to my home. Dreaming about French food is a great way to pass the
time on a train. I’m hoping you enjoy the trip with me.

My first and favourite French food blog is David Lebovitz –
and he’s not even French! Like some other bloggers we know, he’s an American
living in Paris. This fact however, I find is appealing. He is living my dream,
and vicariously I am transported with him. He regularly posts about new
restaurants, favourite local haunts, new drinks, how to type posts, and he’s un
ashamedly a bit opinionated. Some of my favourite posts include

Then my next favourite, and newest edition to my list, if
Foodme.fr Didier, who is married to an American living in Paris, recently
allowed me to interview him for Paris in July (check it out). Didier shared with his followers recipes and his love of
French food through his personalised cooking schools.Some great recipes from Didier (I haven't made these but they look good) include;

I've recently stumbled across an Australian based food blogger, the French Wench, who has done a couple of great posts, very relevant for Aussie French food lovers. Her recent post about Sydney based restaurant, Vincent, has me very tempted.

What
to make for dinner? The everyday menus below provide suggestions for
easy meals with a French touch that can be made any day of the week in
20-30 minutes. The weekend menus suggest more elaborate meals for days
when you have more time. Use them as a guide, and improvise to create
your own. It’s all part of the fun of cooking.

Meg
Bortin, the Everyday French Chef, says ...it’s a modern, down-to-earth way of cooking that will
allow you to put delicious French food on your table in the simplest possible
way, any day, or every day

My next new discover and I'm loving this discovery, is Manger. This is how our host at Manger describes herself...

Ever since I was a little girl I have been deeply passionate about food.
My childhood was largely spent scurrying between the restaurants of
Hong Kong, where I grew up, and the bistros of Paris and the south of
France where we spent our holidays at my French grandmother’s. Food was
constantly on my mind, I’m the girl who was always happiest at the
table

The author of A Kitchen in France; a year of cooking in my farmhouse, Mimi Thorisson, shares with us her beautiful photos, life on the farm in France, and amazing recipes!

There must be hundreds and thousands of French food blogs, facebook sites and pinterest pages, these are just my current favourites. And here's just a few more to mention.....

La Tartine Gourmande - born and raised in the countryside in northeastern France, has lived in New Zealand and now the United States, Béa (short for Béatrice), is a food writer, stylist and photographer based in Boston where she lives with my husband and daughter Lulu.

Chocolate and Zucchini - Cloltilde is our host, and she has some great pages devoted to hints & tips, interviews, travel, Paris resources, & reading recommendations. I love the name of her blog!

I love France for fresh food, and there's nothing better to remember your holiday to France, than enjoying the food you've eating when in France.

What are your favourite food blogs?
What are your favourite food memories of France?

It’s
a modern, down-to-earth way of cooking that will allow you to put
delicious French food on your table in the simplest possible way, any
day, or every day.

What
to make for dinner? The everyday menus below provide suggestions for
easy meals with a French touch that can be made any day of the week in
20-30 minutes. The weekend menus suggest more elaborate meals for days
when you have more time. Use them as a guide, and improvise to create
your own. It’s all part of the fun of cooking. - See more at:
http://everydayfrenchchef.com/menus/#sthash.i4qIh21B.dpuf

What
to make for dinner? The everyday menus below provide suggestions for
easy meals with a French touch that can be made any day of the week in
20-30 minutes. The weekend menus suggest more elaborate meals for days
when you have more time. Use them as a guide, and improvise to create
your own. It’s all part of the fun of cooking. - See more at:
http://everydayfrenchchef.com/menus/#sthash.i4qIh21B.dpuf

10 comments:

Memorable lunch was sat in the shade at our Fermette. Looking out over the distant snow capped Pyrenees whilst eating, ficelle with soft two day old goats cheese fresh from the local market in Vic Fezensac. This simple bread and cheese was topped with fresh strawberries from our one acre veggie garden.And all we could hear were the cows on the next hillside munching the grass.Heather :)

I love David Lebovitz's blog too. A local blogger who is currently at the Cordon Bleu school in Paris is G'Day Souffle: http://www.gdaysouffle.com/ I'm off to explore your links - there's a couple there new to me, which is very exciting!